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Portable TVs: Reliability

Flat panel fantastic

With reliability scores of 99% for Sony and Samsung flat screen TVs, the manufacturers can do little better. In fact, there’s not much room for improvement with other brands either: Panasonic and Sharp trail the leaders with 95%, while Philips and LG are a further 2% back.

To find out more about our research click here. 

Widescreen TV reliability (6 years)
Brand Score
Bush subscriber only
Goodmans subscriber only
Hitachi subscriber only
JVC subscriber only
LG subscriber only
Panasonic subscriber only
Philips subscriber only
Samsung subscriber only
Sanyo subscriber only
Sharp subscriber only
Sony subscriber only
Toshiba subscriber only

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Of our current flat-screen TV Best Buys most are made by Sony or Panasonic. This makes it hard to argue with our survey respondents who advocated these 2 brands more strongly than any others.

Samsung come out well too. In contrast, Sharp (50%), Philips (45%), and LG (41%) were quite some distance behind.

Definitely recommended widescreen TVs
Brand Score
Bush subscriber only
Goodmans subscriber only
Hitachi subscriber only
JVC subscriber only
LG subscriber only
Panasonic subscriber only
Philips subscriber only
Samsung subscriber only
Sanyo subscriber only
Sharp subscriber only
Sony subscriber only
Toshiba subscriber only